Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:18:27 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Aaron Peterson <dopplecoder@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: threading - good, bad, ugly? Message-ID: <20050811021827.GA67794@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <45d750d20508101912402e2311@mail.gmail.com> References: <45d750d20508101822746c51e3@mail.gmail.com> <20050811020408.GA54862@xor.obsecurity.org> <45d750d20508101912402e2311@mail.gmail.com>
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--oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:12:36PM -0400, Aaron Peterson wrote: > On 8/10/05, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:22:10PM -0400, Aaron Peterson wrote: > > > It used to be that lots of people told me threaded applications didn't > > > run efficiently on FreeBSD because the native threading libraries were > > > not very efficient. I remember some work being done on them for the > > > 5.x series though, and am wondering if this is still any issue to be > > > concerned about at all? MySQL performance was the thing people harped > > > on the most IIRC... Anyway, I was just curious about the status of > > > this. Perhaps there was never any issue and it was all talk. I > > > wouldn't know :-) > >=20 > > Most of this discussion is only applicable to 4.x and older and does > > not consider the fundamentally different thread library in 5.x, which > > was rewritten to avoid the problems of the older version. > >=20 > > Kris >=20 > Sounds like I shouldn't have any problems then since I'm all upgraded > to 5.3 and 5.4 for the servers I manage. Do you know of any > performance comparisons for MySQL performance between FreeBSD 5.x and > other operating systems one might run MySQL on? Not off-hand, if any exist they would have been discussed on the mailing lists, so you should search for them. Kris --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC+rVzWry0BWjoQKURAr83AKDtkA0JdUSdjdjhVAerSWiHBgBcwQCfWFZ3 8tkmaxMkz2YKsPBYIRBptg4= =2hqS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --oyUTqETQ0mS9luUI--
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